The woman linking Antwoin M. Craig to an April 2008 burglary waffled on the stand during a jury trial Tuesday afternoon, retracting statements she made to police.

Two Kansas City men already pleaded guilty to burglarizing a house on Penn Street last year, and a third juvenile suspect was involved in the crime. But the Buchanan County Prosecutor’s Office charged Mr. Craig with first-degree burglary and armed criminal action, alleging the St. Joseph man contacted the three men about the crime and helped plan it.

“Those three men came at the direction of one man, Antwoin Craig,” assistant prosecutor Kate Schaefer said in her opening statement, adding the defendant was guilty of aiding, abetting and encouraging others to commit the burglary.

Amy Carroll, according to Ms. Schaefer and the witness’ testimony, was dating Matt Stocking, who lived at the residence on Penn Street. Ms. Carroll formerly dated Mr. Craig, as well, and Ms. Schaefer said that when Mr. Stocking called the defendant, who is black, a racial slur in a text message to Ms. Carroll, she forwarded the epithet to Mr. Craig.

Ms. Schaefer, in her opening statement, argued the evidence would show the defendant, after reading the texts, contacted Seneca J. Harrison about breaking into Mr. Stocking’s house. On April 18, Mr. Harrison, Anthony L. Jackson and a juvenile showed up at the house, kicked in the door and fired shots inside and outside of the home before stealing items from the residence and fleeing the premises.

In one of Ms. Carroll’s statements to police, she said Mr. Craig was behind the robbery. But upon cross examination from defense attorney Jason Soper, Ms. Carroll told the court that her boyfriend, Mr. Stocking, told her to say those things to police.

“He never told me anything,” Ms. Carroll said of the defendant.

Ms. Carroll appeared ambivalent through much of her testimony, peppering her statements with plenty of “I don’t knows,” “I don’t remembers” and “I think.”

Earlier in the day, Jordan Conard, who also was at the house the afternoon of the robbery, testified that Mr. Craig confronted him at a party after the burglary took place. According to Mr. Conard, Mr. Craig told Mr. Conard that his friends were behind the burglary and that had he been there, the defendant would’ve “blown” Mr. Stocking’s head off.

During cross examination, Mr. Conard admitted he waited three months to issue a statement to police about his encounters with the defendant.

Mr. Wallace and Mr. Jackson are scheduled to testify this morning as the jury trial continues.

R.J. Cooper can be reached at rjcooper@npgco.com.